Disinfecting apparatus for barbers&#39; implements.



PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904.

F. I. FISCHER.

DISINFBGTING APPARATUS FOR BARBBRS IMPLEMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 23, 1903.

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No. 768,848. PATENTED AUG. 80, 1904. P. I. FISCHER.

DISINFEGTING APPARATUS FOR BARBERS IMPLEMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.23, 1903.

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FLOREAN I. FISCHER, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

DISINFECTING APPARATUS FOR BARBERS IMPLEMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,848, dated August 30, 1904.

Application filed December 23, 1903. Serial No. 186.278. (No model.)

To ([171 whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FLOREAN I. FISCHER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of lw'lanhattan. in the city and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Disinfecting Apparatus for Barbers Implements, of which the following is a speci fication.

My invention relates to disinfecting apparatus for barber's implements, with the object in view of providing convenient and efficient means for keeping the implements cleansed and preventing the gathering of moisture on the articles, which would tend toinjure them.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of the apparatus in front elevation as it appears when in use. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the body portion, taken therethrough from side to side and showing the hinged portion of the cover thrown open. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the body portion. the cover being removed. Fig. A is a similar view with the perforated diaphragm removed. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a vertical section from front to rear, and Fig. 7 is a plan and side view of the skeleton razor-pocket.

The preferred form of casing is that illustrated in the drawings, which is urn-shaped, the body portion being denoted by 1, the base by 2, and the crowned cover by 3. This shape has its advantages in economy of the antiseptic disinfecting vapor and gives at the same time an extended space for the reception of implements.

At or nearv the top of the body portion there the implements project forwardly through slots 9 in the hinged portion of the cover, and for convenience in handling the cover 1 provide it with the knob or handle 10.

Below the perforated diaphragm 4 comb and shear-pockets are provided as follows: A plate 11 is fastened to the inner face of the front of the casing 1. and from this extend inwardly in a substantially horizontal direction comb-pockets 19., shear-pockets 13, (see Fig. 4,) and razor-pockets 14. These several pockets for the comb, shears, and razors are connected with this one plate, which plate is removably secured to the front of the body by screws 15. These several pockets are made to admit the free How of antiseptic vapor around and out of contact with the implements laid thereon, and the razorpocket is provided 'with spring-clamping jaws 16 17 in the entrance ends of the pockets, so that the end of the reception of the disinfecting fluid and another compartment, 20, for the reception of the condensed liquid after it has done its disinfecting work in the form of a vapor. The

tank 18 may be slid horizontally into and out of its position within the casing and is pro- 21, which is intended to be so weighted that it will lift when the vapor has produced a pressure which will insure its escape in the form of a dry steam.

At the front of the tank 18 two indicators are placed, one (denoted by 22) to determine the degree of heat which the liquidhas reached and one (denoted by 23) to indicate the height of water in the tank. Heat is conveniently applied to the base of the tank 18 by a gasfiame 24:; but it is to be understood that any other suitable or convenient source of applying heat to the tank may be utilizedas, for example, by the oil-flame where gas is not convenient. The products of combustion are carried away along a fine 25 and thence into an uptake 26, which may be higher or lower, as occasion may require to produce more or less draft.

The dry vapor or steam which has escaped past the valve 21 and come in contact with the various implements within the ct sing is linally condensed by its contact with the inner walls of the casing, and particularly with the inner face of the cover 3, and is collected as it flows along down the inner face of the cover in an annular trough 27, which discharges through an opening 28 into a down wardly-extended pipe or trough 29, which conducts the liquid into the compartment 20 of the tank 18, from which it may be poured or otherwise removed when the tank 18 is withdrawn.

It is obvious that changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. Hence I do not wish to limit myself strictly to the structure herein shown and described; but

WV hat I claim is A disinfecting apparatus for barbers implements comprising a suitable casing for the reception of the implements, a tank for disinfecting fluid arranged to be moved into and out of its position and open to the interior of the casing only through a discharge-valve, means for applying heat to the bottom of the tank to vaporize the fluid therein, a dischargevalve seated in the top of the tank and arranged to lift under a predetermined pressure of fluid vaporized by the heat and means for collecting the condensed vapor exterior to the tank.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention 1 have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 5th day of December, 1903.

FLOREAN I. FlSCHER. \Vitnesses:

FREDERICK G. IIAOI-IIGNBERG, FREDK. HAYNES. 

